We’ve been married 38 years and have had cats since day 1. The first family of cats had one live to 24 another to 22 and one to 18. Two others met their end at around 9 years. All of them were, and are, special to us.
Our oldest in our second group is now 16, and except for chronic IBS is in perfect health—never had a single bad tooth—our only cat of both families to ever be that lucky. We’ve spent a fortune over the years—probably in excess of $20,000 trying to keep them healthy and happy. We were $5,000 into chemo treatments for our beloved Freddie when we could see he wasn’t going to make it so we stopped and put him down when he got too miserable. Hardest thing we ever had to do.
Take your kitties in for regular checkups and just love ‘em like there’s no tomorrow.
It must be heaven to be one of your kitties.
That’s why they live so long.